Stock waterer



IN VEN TOR.

T mTcHIE socnsf. WATERER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. I6, 1922.

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. application led January 16, 1922. Serial No. 529,540.

To all @akamai/may concer/a: H14 to receive a valve 15 whose stem 16 is Be it known that lf,;'i`rrorms Riromn, a controlled by a float lever 17 having a float citizen of the United States, residing at 18 at its free end extending into the pan Oskaloosa, in county of Mahaska and` State and influenced by the water therein. 60 of Iowa, have invented certain new and use-y rlhe valve seat member 1av v.includes a ful Improvements in Stock VVaterers, of threaded portion to engage through the botwhich the following is a specification. tom of the tank and held by packing nuts,

This invention relates to stock watering orthe like, as shown in Fig.f6. devices, and has for one of its objects to By this means the water in the pan is GV l0 simplify and improve the construction and maintained at a uniform level, andV autoinerease the efficiency and utility of devices matically replenished only so fast as it is of this character. i y consumed. y t Another object of the invention is tof pro- Formed within the pan by a partition 19 vide a device of this character including a is a compartment to receive a heating me- Watering pan, a compartment within thev dium represented conventionally at 20, the pan to contain a heat imparting medium, a wall of the casing 10 being provided with an Watering tank to replenish the` water in the opening to permit the insertion and removal pan, openings for the noses ofthe animals of the heater. y to reach the Water in the pan and protected The front of the heater is laterally ,en- `75 20 by internal hoods, and `means for autolarged as Shown at 21 to form a closure to matically replenshing the pan as fast as it the opening, and the enlarged end provided is consumed, and no more, to prevent floodwith a register device represented at 22 to ingand Waste. control the supply of air to the heater.

1With these and other objectsin view the The partition 19 is exposed for its whole s0 25 invention consists incertain novel features length to the wall of the heater and the heat of constructionl as hereinafter shown and `thus utilized to its greatest extent for radiadescribed and then specifically pointed out tion .into the water in the pan. in the claim, and in the drawings `illustrative Formed through the sides of the casing of the preferred embodiment ofthe invenabove the line of the water in the pan 11, 85 `3o tion i and at `each side of the partition 19, are in Figure 1 is a front elevation ofthe im-A let openings 23 to provide access of the proved device. y animals to the pan, each opening being pro- Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2-2 vided with a guard hood 24 which :reaches of Fig. 1. v y at its loweredge constantly into the water 90 FigB is a vertical section on the lineB-B in the pan. The hoods thus serve the ltvvoof Fig. l. y y fold purpose of preventing small animals Fig. L is a transverse `section on the line from getting into the pan, and likewise prelw of Fig. 1. venting the escape of heat through thei Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line openings. 95

40 5--5 of Fig. l. y y The animals can thus reach only the limiti Fig. 6 is a detail view. ed space beneath the hoods 24, but which is The improved device comprises a casing sufficient to supply their Wants. The conor shell, representedas a' Whole at 10, and tents of the panis thus protected and waste preferably open at the top and provided or fouling of the Water prevented. 100 with a suitable detachable closure. `The casrlhe improved device enables various ing may be of any form or size and of any kinds of fuel to be used in the heater, such -suitable.;material, but is preferably cylinas coal, wood, charcoal, and the iike, and drical, and of galvanized iron or the like. may be readiily replenished as required, Located inthe lower part of the casing without disturbing the pan or the tank, and 105 or shell 10`is a pan 11 for a relatively small the tank may be replenished without dissupply of the water. for the immediate use turbing the pan or the heater. of the animals, and removably supported `The preferred embodiment of the invenwithin the shell, for instance by chocks 12, tion is disclosed in the drawings and set is a relatively large tank 13 for the supply forth 'in the specification, but it Vwill be un` 110 for replenishingthe pan.` derstood that modifications within 'the scope The tank 13 issupplied with a valve seat of the claimed invention may be made in pun, a heater adapted to be inserted into the compartment through the opening; into the same, protecting hoods over the lateral o]')enings and constantly immersed :1t their lower edges in the water in the pam, :1y water tank supported within the easing, und means for supplying water ifiom the funk to the pan.

In testimony whereof` l alix my signature 20 hereto.

THOMAS RITCHTT). 

